The State Council of Higher
Education in Virginia names Edmund P. Russell III, assistant
professor in the engineering school, as an Outstanding
Faculty member, the Commonwealth's highest honor for college
and university faculty.

The University library acquires two
rare and privately printed booklets of poetry written by
T.S. Eliot, including a poem, "Virginia,"presumed to have
been written after Eliot's visit to the University.

The Faculty Senate leads a
University-wide discussion series on "Technology and Change
in the University Community." Technology's applications for
scholarship and community building has been championed by
the Faculty Senate in recent years.

Founder's Day activities include
awarding the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Award in
law to Elaine Jones (above left), who in 1970 became
the first African-American to graduate from the law school,
and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in
architecture to Richard Rogers, a major figure of modern
architecture.

University
architect Elizabeth W. Lawson is elected by the American
Institute of Architects to its prestigious College of
Fellows.

Annette Gordon-Reed, of New York Law School (left),
and University Press director Nancy Essig discuss
Gordon-Reed's new book on Thomas Jefferson and Sally
Hemings, published by the Press.

Cell
biologist John C. Herr is named the Christopher J. Henderson
Inventor of the Year by the U.Va. Patent Foundation.

African-American history month is
celebrated with an address on ethical revolutions of the
20th century by internationally known African scholar Ali A.
Mazrui (shown above, left, with M. Rick Turner, Dean of
African-American Affairs).

Julian Bond, national chairman of
the NAACP and U.Va. professor of history, moderates a panel
discussion on "Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History,
Memory, and Civic Culture." Participants also include three
Pulitzer Prize-winning historians.

"In Celebration of Teaching"awards
are bestowed upon Thomas F.X. Noble (below left),
professor of history and Brian Owensby (below right),
assistant professor of history.

The literary journal, Meridian, publishes
two uncollected poems by Robert Frost discovered in the University's Special
Collections Library by English graduate student and Meridian editor Ted
Genoways.

As the U.Va. campaign reaches $761
million, surpassing the University's original goal more than
a year ahead of schedule, President Casteen delivers his
annual State of the University address to students, faculty,
and staff in Old Cabell Hall.

President Casteen affirms the
University's commitment todiversity at a Faculty Senate meeting,
commenting on acharge by a
private think tank that U.Va. admission policies are
racially biased. In October, the Board of Visitors supports
expansion of outreach efforts in the admission office,
declaring its policies legal and defensible.

The 5th annual Virginia Festival of
the Book brings nationally acclaimed writers, including
Alice McDermott and Allan Gurganus, to Charlottesville to
join U.Va. authors Stephen Cushman, Rita Dove, George
Garrett, and Gregory Orr.